If someone wants to understand why this moment is important and emotive, I suggest them to read the novels or the manga adaptations, both alternatives put an effort for this conclusion to feel as one. I knew it would be bad, but they still surprised me because both Ernst and Alienore are fucking shafted to nothing. HECK THEY DIDN'T EVEN ADRESS HOW SCARLET FELT ABOUT HER DAD SENDING HER TO DEATH.
And to be honest, Connie and Randolph's romance is already awkward, possibly the weakest thing from the work, yet the anime found new ways to make it even less remarkable.
A masterpiece of HOW to NOT adapt a 3 volume story.